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trongdat.1107
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Snap toolbar missing

trongdat.1107
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‎04-17-2023 07:00 AM

For reasons unknown my Snap toolbar has become missing. Toggle buttons are missing. This happens when i drag the Snap Working Pivot Tool toolbar out with  Snap toolbar.Screenshot 2023-04-17 204614.jpg

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Mr.Mxyzptlk
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‎04-17-2023 08:13 AM

Right click where I circled at the top in red. Should show you everything.

MrMxyzptlk_0-1681744387200.png

 

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trongdat.1107
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‎04-17-2023 05:48 PM

Sorry my english is not good, maybe you don't understand what i mean. Here, snap toolbar buttons are missing.

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clermont_3dstudio
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‎04-23-2023 02:12 PM

I've got the same problem.......

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jibijib
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‎07-09-2023 09:04 PM

I also have the same problem in Max 2024!

 

Did anyone try and open UI/Toolbar settings from a previous version of Max?

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jibijib
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‎07-09-2023 09:14 PM

You can restore this by going into the "Customise User Interface" menu, and then dragging the buttons onto it from the "Snaps - Standard" category, as pictured. The icons will be missing, and dragging and dropping in the correct place on a toolbar is quite frustrating as it will put the icons in random places it seems, so it'll take some doing.1.png2.png

 

You can change the icon by right clicking on the button, and selecting change button appearance, and then go into Image Button, and select snaps group - all the icons will be there in order they should be.

 

 

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K.W.J.P.
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‎07-10-2023 08:26 AM

thanks for this reply.. BUT. for what are we all paying here? Every time AUTODESK releases something, it always worsens better on the other side... what the hell!?

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K.W.J.P.
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‎07-10-2023 08:36 AM
... hhrhrhr... I think most peaoples here dont find this so funny... 😄
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jibijib
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‎12-27-2023 04:56 AM

I just thought I would update this with a quicker way of repairing the snaps toolbar - I think this happens if you use hard copy file versions of Max's settings into later versions, but who knows really.

 

You can go into "Customize User Interface", and the "Toolbars" tab.

Click on "Save..." button twice and save two versions of the toolbar settings (they have CUIX file extensions), and then find the file you just saved. KEEP ONE AS BACKUP IF THIS DOESN'T WORK FOR YOU.

Open up the file in notepad and search for:

Window objectName="Snaps" name="Snaps"

 

Select everything from:

<Window objectName="Snaps" name="Snaps" type="T" cType="1" toolbarRows="1">

down to the next line that says:

</Window>

 

Select everything below and paste this over that, save the file as the newtoolbar.CUIX, go back into Max, and then load this updated file in the Customize User Interface menu (as above) and it should update your buttons correctly.

 

<Window objectName="Snaps" name="Snaps" type="T" cType="1" toolbarRows="1">
<Items>
<Item typeID="2" type="CTB_MACROBUTTON" width="0" height="0" controlID="0" macroTypeID="4" macroType="MB_TYPE_ACTION_CUSTOM" actionTableID="1259304063" imageID="0" imageName="Snap_Points" actionID="40000" tip="Snap To Grid Points Toggle" label="" />
<Item typeID="2" type="CTB_MACROBUTTON" width="0" height="0" controlID="0" macroTypeID="4" macroType="MB_TYPE_ACTION_CUSTOM" actionTableID="1259304063" imageID="1" imageName="Snap_Points" actionID="40001" tip="Snap To Pivot Toggle" label="" />
<Item typeID="2" type="CTB_MACROBUTTON" width="0" height="0" controlID="0" macroTypeID="4" macroType="MB_TYPE_ACTION_CUSTOM" actionTableID="1259304063" imageID="4" imageName="Snap_Points" actionID="40006" tip="Snap To Face Toggle" label="" />
<Item typeID="2" type="CTB_MACROBUTTON" width="0" height="0" controlID="0" macroTypeID="4" macroType="MB_TYPE_ACTION_CUSTOM" actionTableID="1259304063" imageID="3" imageName="Snap_Points" actionID="40002" tip="Snap To Vertex Toggle" label="" />
<Item typeID="2" type="CTB_MACROBUTTON" width="0" height="0" controlID="0" macroTypeID="4" macroType="MB_TYPE_ACTION_CUSTOM" actionTableID="1259304063" imageID="2" imageName="Snap_Points" actionID="40005" tip="Snap To Edge/Segment Toggle" label="" />
<Item typeID="2" type="CTB_MACROBUTTON" width="0" height="0" controlID="0" macroTypeID="4" macroType="MB_TYPE_ACTION_CUSTOM" actionTableID="1259304063" imageID="5" imageName="Snap_Points" actionID="40004" tip="Snap To Midpoint Toggle" label="" />
<Item typeID="3" type="CTB_SEPARATOR" width="6" height="16" orientation="31" visible="1" />
<Item typeID="2" type="CTB_MACROBUTTON" width="0" height="0" controlID="0" macroTypeID="3" macroType="MB_TYPE_ACTION" actionTableID="0" imageID="-1" imageName="" actionID="40905" tip="Snaps To Frozen Objects Toggle" label="Snaps To Frozen Objects Toggle" />
<Item typeID="2" type="CTB_MACROBUTTON" width="0" height="0" controlID="0" macroTypeID="3" macroType="MB_TYPE_ACTION" actionTableID="0" imageID="-1" imageName="" actionID="40904" tip="Enable Axis Constraints in Snaps Toggle" label="Enable Axis Constraints in Snaps Toggle" />
</Items>
</Window>

 

 

 

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alisson_projetos3d
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‎04-29-2024 08:32 AM

I had the same problem when in Customize> Custom Default Switcher I changed it to “max.vray”. I returned to the default “Max” and the snap bar buttons worked again.

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jibijib
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‎05-20-2024 03:58 AM

That would revert all your settings to defaults (keyboard, toolbar layout, etc).

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alisson_projetos3d
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‎05-20-2024 09:23 PM

Yes, at least here I solved it by saving and loading my custom configuration in "save/load custom UI scheme". You can save your current settings before returning to the default setting. When you load them back to max, they will not set max.vray and the problem did not return here.

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wowdragon73
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‎06-24-2024 10:55 AM

Also having same problem with Max 2024.. is there an actual update / fix for this problem that doesn't require us to jump through all these goofy hoops and or workarounds?

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kenelwoodKEUCJ
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‎12-20-2024 08:09 AM

Yep! This is the way.  I just installed 2024 a year after this post (12-20-24) and this was still an issue.  How is that possible Autodesk?   This copy and paste solution solved it in under 1 min.  Again I ask... how is this still an issue Autodesk?!!!

Thanks jibijib!

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kenelwoodKEUCJ
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‎12-20-2024 09:29 AM

This will give you the original icons in working condition:

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<Window objectName="Snaps" name="Snaps" type="T" cType="1" toolbarRows="1">
<Items>
<Item typeID="2" type="CTB_MACROBUTTON" width="0" height="0" controlID="0" macroTypeID="4" macroType="MB_TYPE_ACTION_CUSTOM" actionTableID="1259304063" iconName="SnapsControls/SnapToGridPointsToggle" actionID="40000" tip="Snap To Grid Points Toggle" label="" />
<Item typeID="2" type="CTB_MACROBUTTON" width="0" height="0" controlID="0" macroTypeID="4" macroType="MB_TYPE_ACTION_CUSTOM" actionTableID="1259304063" iconName="SnapsControls/SnapToPivotToggle" actionID="40001" tip="Snap To Pivot Toggle" label="" />
<Item typeID="2" type="CTB_MACROBUTTON" width="0" height="0" controlID="0" macroTypeID="4" macroType="MB_TYPE_ACTION_CUSTOM" actionTableID="1259304063" iconName="SnapsControls/SnapToVertexToggle" actionID="40002" tip="Snap To Vertex Toggle" label="" />
<Item typeID="2" type="CTB_MACROBUTTON" width="0" height="0" controlID="0" macroTypeID="4" macroType="MB_TYPE_ACTION_CUSTOM" actionTableID="1259304063" iconName="SnapsControls/SnapToEndpointToggle" actionID="40003" tip="Snap To Endpoint Toggle" label="" />
<Item typeID="2" type="CTB_MACROBUTTON" width="0" height="0" controlID="0" macroTypeID="4" macroType="MB_TYPE_ACTION_CUSTOM" actionTableID="1259304063" iconName="SnapsControls/SnapToMidpointToggle" actionID="40004" tip="Snap To Midpoint Toggle" label="" />
<Item typeID="2" type="CTB_MACROBUTTON" width="0" height="0" controlID="0" macroTypeID="4" macroType="MB_TYPE_ACTION_CUSTOM" actionTableID="1259304063" iconName="SnapsControls/SnapToEdgeSegmentToggle" actionID="40005" tip="Snap To Edge/Segment Toggle" label="" />
<Item typeID="2" type="CTB_MACROBUTTON" width="0" height="0" controlID="0" macroTypeID="4" macroType="MB_TYPE_ACTION_CUSTOM" actionTableID="1259304063" iconName="SnapsControls/SnapToFaceToggle" actionID="40006" tip="Snap To Face Toggle" label="" />
<Item typeID="3" type="CTB_SEPARATOR" width="6" height="16" orientation="31" visible="1" />
<Item typeID="2" type="CTB_MACROBUTTON" width="0" height="0" controlID="0" macroTypeID="3" macroType="MB_TYPE_ACTION" actionTableID="0" imageID="-1" imageName="" actionID="40905" tip="Snaps To Frozen Objects Toggle" label="Snaps To Frozen Objects Toggle" />
<Item typeID="2" type="CTB_MACROBUTTON" width="0" height="0" controlID="0" macroTypeID="3" macroType="MB_TYPE_ACTION" actionTableID="0" imageID="-1" imageName="" actionID="40904" tip="Enable Axis Constraints in Snaps Toggle" label="Enable Axis Constraints in Snaps Toggle" />
</Items>
</Window>

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jibijib
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‎12-30-2024 04:48 PM
You just copied the exact same text that I wrote.
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kenelwoodKEUCJ
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‎01-02-2025 10:05 AM

Its slightly different.  This version uses the current icons.  With the version you posted I was getting older icons.  This version uses 

iconName="SnapsControls/SnapToGridPointsToggle" 

 instead of 

 imageID="0" imageName="Snap_Points"

I'm not really sure why it works, but I was used to the new icons.

-k

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